1. We are saved by God's grace, apart from our work – so why does obtaining God's wisdom require such work?
  2. We might assume that all ways are equal to raising a child in wisdom, but they are not.
  3. We’ve all been there, waiting in line to check out, and the person ahead of us questions the price of something that was just rung up.
  4. Our meditation listens to the King of Kings when He says; it is finished.
  5. Our goal is to proclaim the genuine good news—that’s what “Gospel” means—of Christ’s forgiveness for you. We do not offer you better tips, techniques or checklists. Instead, You Are Forgiven is sermons by faithful pastors who will clearly show how you cannot be forgiven by your own efforts, no matter how well you do on your homework, your checklist of tasks. But they will also show how you are actually and already forgiven because Jesus has done all that is needed, for you!
  6. Nicodemus, like us, does not really have phantoms and dragons in his head. He has just one demon, one virus, one malady: he lives in fear.
  7. God is for us in His foolish, scarred Word and Wisdom. Nothing is against us, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
  8. Only a god could be wise. We are seekers, lovers of divine wisdom, but it is forever beyond our grasp due to human limitation.
  9. Wisdom speaks in proverbs, parables and riddles. And the simple continue to wander right past her words of life.
  10. Generally, we call that path the lectionary. I’m a big fan of the lectionaries in general. They do several things.